Katharine Coles's seventh collection of poems, Wayward, is due from Red Hen Press in 2019; her memoir, Look Both Ways, will be out in 2018. She is a Poet in Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and at the SLC Public Library for the Poets House program FIELD WORK, and was sent to Antarctica in 2010 to write poems under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (The Earth Is Not Flat, Red Hen 2012). She has received grants from the NEA and NEH and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Other poems by Katharine Coles in Verse Daily:
April 8, 2015:   "Penguin Shot" "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
May 3, 2013:   "Here Be Monsters" "We could fall off one..."
May 31, 2009:   "Numbers" "They won't stick. They gleam like brilliantine...."

Books by Katharine Coles:

Other poems on the web by Katharine Coles:
Eleven poems
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"The New Day"
Two poems
"Hawks"
Three poems

Katharine Coles According to Wikipedia.

About Wayward:

"Pleasure in the mouth, pleasure in the swiftness and accuracy of perception, pleasure in observing a mind divided against itself interrogate its every assumption, pleasure in following the tough-minded investigations of self and the world through the lenses of physics, neurobiology, natural and human history—all these singular pleasures coalesce into poems rich with lyric feeling and a passionately precise syntax. Her use of rhyme shows why virtuosity coupled with psychological insight can get you closer to the heart of things in ten lines than in a pages-long narrative full of intimate details. Coles is a rarity in her generation or any generation: her understanding that poetry is a quintessentially formal art has allowed her to create her own conventions and explode the usual dichotomies between politics and private life, between tradition and the programmatically avant-garde. She is a true original."
—Tom Sleigh